vlc media player

Michael Havens bmike1 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 26 17:10:36 MST 2013 

uh-ohhhhhh
I installed 13.12 with the force option and it installed. then the machine
said it needed a reboot. so I did and now X doesn't work. so this is way
deeper than I had hoped it would be but it is too late to go back now! so I
had read that you need to reinstall X after an FGLRX upgrade. I need to go
to work now but if you could tell me how to do this it would be great.
After we get done with this I am going to have a bunch of instructional
files. that is what I do now.... I copy the instructuions into a file and
put that into a folder entitle 'computer instructions so I don't have to
bug anyone about my little problems and so I can help someone with the same
problem.

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> figured out the installation (sh <file>) but now it is telling me to
> uninstall the previous installation of fglrx (which I am doing with apt-get
> remove). But to remove it it is installing a package called :
>
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   fglrx-amdcccle-updates fglrx-updates
>
> SO should I continue with the installation of 13.12 after the updates are
> installed?
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> okay....  is installed but they are up to version 13.12 . Time for an
>> upgrade. I d/l the new driver butdon't know how to install it. The file is
>> a .run file . './<file name> isn't working and the release notes don't give
>> any indication.  So what do I do?
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>wrote:
>>
>>>  mb at host:~$  sudo dpkg -l fglrx
>>> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>>> |
>>> Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
>>> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
>>> ||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
>>>
>>> +++-==============-============-============-=================================
>>> ii  fglrx          2:13.200-0ub amd64        Video driver for the AMD
>>> graphics
>>>
>>> Compare that against the active driver sets from AMD's site.
>>>
>>> -mb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/26/2013 03:56 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Mike..... how do I see what the current version of fglrx is? I tried
>>> locate and I think it is 9 or 10 as there are a coupke of files.... one is:
>>> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/10fglrx
>>> and the other
>>>  /usr/lib/pxpress/lib/10fglrx
>>>  or
>>>  /usr/src/fglrx-9.000
>>>  and then a bunch of files built off of that directory.
>>> .... then I just noticed:
>>>
>>>  /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Ok, I think the problem is likely with the format of the video, it
>>>> doesn't sound like they're being hardware decoded, as I don't even see a
>>>> blip on the cpu when the gpu is doing the decode.  Basically you don't have
>>>> enough processing that it's dragging your system down with it.  If VLC,
>>>> Totem, or whatever all behave the same, it's a system resource issue.
>>>>
>>>> I'd make sure you upgrade your drivers from actual AMD/ATI site, as the
>>>> ones in repo tend to be old, you might just have some rendering
>>>> challenges.  They've also steadily added codecs over time for what they can
>>>> decode, so it might be fixed.  Don't install the radeon driver, just
>>>> upgrade the fglrx proprietary blob driver.
>>>>
>>>> The other option is change your recording format to something that
>>>> doesn't kill your cpu.  You can also transcode or reencode the existing
>>>> videos.  I'd recommend just using straight h.264 as it's all but standard
>>>> and supported by most gpu's for decode now.  Plenty of info and apps out
>>>> there to do this, but not my forte to point you at any one.  I never make
>>>> videos, I just download straight h.264 or xvid videos that give me no grief.
>>>>
>>>> What format *are* these in?  Not just the container (ie. mkv), but the
>>>> actual codec in use.  VLC will tell you if you look under Tool menu, and
>>>> Codec Properties when the file is loaded.
>>>>
>>>> Reply to all for the list too, might help someone else out here without
>>>> me having readd them back in disjointed thread fashion.  :)
>>>>
>>>> -mb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/26/2013 12:13 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  I'm not sure if I need to say this but xbmc videos play with no
>>>> problem; the problem is with home recorded videos. If I upload the videos
>>>> to you tube they will play fine. As for the output of: lsmod | egrep
>>>> 'fgl|rade'
>>>>
>>>>       fglrx                4325524  223 <4325524%20%C2%A0223>
>>>>
>>>>   I do not seem to have a radeon driver. I did apt-cache search to see
>>>> I could figure out what to install.... and out of the list that printed up
>>>> of interest (i think) is:
>>>>      fglrx-updates - Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators
>>>> and
>>>>      rovclock - utility to control frequency rates of your Radeon card
>>>>
>>>>  htop just showed vlc at the top of the list when I started it with
>>>> cpu usage between 10% and 80%.
>>>>
>>>>  I also just tried it with totem (slow video and no sound) and
>>>> gnome-mplayer (slow video, normal sound which rushes ahead)
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>
>>>>  $ apt-cache search radeon
>>>>  libdrm-radeon1 - Userspace interface to radeon-specific kernel DRM
>>>> services -- runtime
>>>> libdrm-radeon1-dbg - Userspace interface to radeon-specific kernel DRM
>>>> services -- debugging symbols
>>>> radeontool - utility to control ATI Radeon backlight functions on
>>>> laptops
>>>> xserver-xorg-video-ati - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI display driver
>>>> wrapper
>>>> xserver-xorg-video-ati-dbg - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI display driver
>>>> wrapper (debugging symbols)
>>>> xserver-xorg-video-radeon - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display
>>>> driver
>>>> xserver-xorg-video-radeon-dbg - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon
>>>> display driver (debugging symbols)
>>>> xvba-va-driver - XvBA-based backend for VA API (AMD fglrx
>>>> implementation)
>>>> fglrx - Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators
>>>> fglrx-amdcccle - Catalyst Control Center for the AMD graphics
>>>> accelerators
>>>> fglrx-amdcccle-updates - Catalyst Control Center for the AMD graphics
>>>> accelerators
>>>> fglrx-dev - Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators (devel files)
>>>>  fglrx-updates - Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators
>>>> fglrx-updates-dev - Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators
>>>> (devel files)
>>>> mplayer2 - next generation movie player for Unix-like systems
>>>> rovclock - utility to control frequency rates of your Radeon card
>>>> atitvout - ATI TV Out Support Program
>>>> gatos - ATI All-in-Wonder TV capture software
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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